The electronic-dance music world is divided between artists who make listeners sway and those whose songs inspire jumping.

The eight acts vying for Grammys in the dance-music category this winter are often lumped together as makers of what has become known as electronic-dance music, or EDM.

But Win Music founder Sean Glass, whose artist Duke Dumont is up for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording for his track "Need U (100%)," and others said the contenders are split starkly in two camps: those whose songs make fans jump up and down, and those...